Lorettes, grisettes, and girls of the town had come there in the hope of finding a protector, a lover, a gold coin, or simply for the pleasure of dancing; and their dresses, with tunics of water-green, cherry-red, or violet, swept along, fluttered between the ebony-trees and the lilacs. Nearly all the men’s clothes were of striped materiality; some of them had white trousers, in spite of the coolness of the evening. The gas was lighted. —Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert